Good News For Bad Guys, Chipotle Has Banned Guns From All Of Their Stores

Following a recent spat with gun rights advocates in Texas, Chipotle has put it’s foot down on bringing guns into their restaurants. I guess this is something that needed to happen, especially when people are bringing assault rifles into a fast food eatery to prove a point. From Huffington Post:

Chipotle is asking customers not to bring firearms into its stores after it says gun rights advocates brought military-style assault rifles into one of its restaurants in Texas.

The Denver-based company notes that it has traditionally complied with local laws regarding open and concealed firearms.

But in a statement Monday, the company said that “the display of firearms in our restaurants has now created an environment that is potentially intimidating or uncomfortable for many of our customers.”

The announcement came after a petition by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which has called on other companies to ban firearms in their stores as well. The group said its petition was in reaction to open-carry gun activists appearing at a Dallas-area Chipotle restaurant over the weekend.

It just sort of boggles my mind that gun activists would choose Chipotle of all places to show their rights off. I have no qualms with the gun owning burrito lovers of society and I’m not riding hard for a ban. But is it possible to leave the firearm in the vehicle for the ten minutes you’re in the restaurant?

Unless this is Jaurez and it’s delivery day, I think you’ll be alright for the duration of your meal. The only time I think you’ll need to brandish the gun is when you’re faced with a silent alien invasion. I’ll let Roddy Piper take it from there.

it isn’t criminals we’re worried about, we don’t want YOU the lawful gun owner scaring people with your firearms when they are just trying to eat a burrito. you stupid, paranoid, selfish motherfuckers.

It really is ironic that the most fervent and rabid supporters of the 2nd amendment are going to be the driving force of more stringent gun regulation.
These clowns just don’t understand that they are their own worst enemy.

They are fighting for OUR rights. That means yours and mine. Normal people are not to be feared. It’s the crazies out there. Crazies don’t follow the law. That’s why we classify them as CRIMINALS. Criminals cannot purchase guns. What part of that equation do you not understand .

Crazies are people who think that the United States, which is statistically safer than it’s ever been, is so fucking dangerous that they need to be armed like every waking moment is about to break out into the shootout at the O.K. Corral, and some fat fuck with a small dick and delusions of adequacy can flip a switch and go from burrito-eating jackass to Wyatt Fucking Earp.

And your knowledge of the law, or even basic vocabulary, is so fucking lacking trying to discuss this rationally would clearly be a waste of time. As @TheMuffinman1234 said, idiots like you have cowed politicians into letting “Crazies” purchase guns quite easily, and have hollowed out the law so thoroughly that to say “Criminals cannot purchase guns” is grossly and factually untrue except in the most narrow of retail circumstances.

So on behalf of sane Americans everywhere, Thank You. Thank you for allowing your delusions of persecution and self-righteousness to do the exact opposite of what you say the law should do. Of course, this argument only applies to guns. I’m sure you have no problem outlawing all sorts of things that you don’t like even though those bans are not 100% effective.

And when some guy walks into Chipotle wielding an AR-15, how am I supposed to know if he’s a “good guy” or not? I don’t know that. Maybe he’s there to make a statement and maybe he’s there to shoot up the place. The AR-15 is the weapon of choice for mass shooters.

ak3647 I was just about to make the same basic statement. Until the shooting starts, there is no way to tell the sane gun owner from the one who is carrying a grudge. And if carrying rifles into restaurants becomes commonplace, no one is going to give the homicidal maniac a second glance. Until the bodies start to pile up, that is. In addition, I will agree with those commenters here, who have stated that there is no legitimate reason to take a rifle of any kind into a restaurant, not to mention an assault rifle. So far as I know, there have been very few, if any, armed gangs busting into a restaurant, to require defending ones self against.

This country would be better off if it did secede, but those chickenshits wouldn’t actually have the balls to back up their bullshit, which is a fair description of every Texan I’ve ever met. Loudmouths who don’t have the balls to back up their words unless they’re drunk, in which case they’re as dangerous to themselves and random bypassers as to the people that pissed them off.

Seems a group of people decided to make a political statement and slung their AR’s on their backs and went into a restaurant. Keep in mind that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should because if you do it often enough someone is bound to make a law against it (this is how we lost open carry in CA).

Imagine you are sitting in your favorite coffee shop chain and a large group of swarthy looking mean in Muslim garb come in with AK’s slung on their backs. Would that tend to make you a little nervous?

Just because one has the constitutional right to do a thing does not necessarily make it the right thing to do.
I prefer not to have to stare at someone’s Glock while enjoying my guacamole, so please keep your guns at home — they add nothing to the ambiance of the public dining experience.